9 a.m. —National Institutes of Healthholds a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, to review reports of administrative, legislative and program developments in the drug-abuse field. Location: National Institutes of Health, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville. Contact: 301/443-2755.

Meets at 10 a.m. to consider the national defense authorization for fiscal 2004; and the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/225-2020, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/225-1600.